Bon Printemps!
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Glittering Dresses
Women carry wedding offerings in the map-work in Glittering Dresses: an embroidered Bagh, a wedding urn, “something in a clenched hand.” The celebrants leave nothing behind, carrying what the background conveys with them; longing, joy, relentless memories, and a sense of watching from afar as the places left behind change as well.
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Creatures of the Cold
In the drawing on paper, Creatures of the cold, a kind of funeral pyre/totem rises over the wheat and sugarcane fields. In a conversation with me about this piece, Raina said he was looking at stone carvings and rocks in Kashmir, monuments that are standing, or decaying. Observing these structures, he was thinking of scientific research, and how climate change in the Himalayas changes the mountain eco-system. He was also “looking at the history of mythology in fold-stories and the history of ecology in Kashmir, the relationship between mythology and ecology, storytelling, and how folk-stories were used to think about the land in intimate ways…”
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What Will I Protect by Jagdeep Raina
What Will I Protect is like exquisite fragment of a quilt, but also remind me of what I’ve read of Baghs. The word Bagh literally means garden, but refers in this context to a large cloth embroidered in a style from Punjab, with thread-work so rich it renders the cloth invisible. Baghs feature imagery from the embroiderer’s daily life and the world around them. A waning tradition, they are made within the Punjabi community, initiated ceremoniously by the community in song. Baghs are included in trousseaus and become family heirlooms.
In the tapestry “What Will I Protect?”, girls climb apple trees – a distant memory of childhood that feels unearthed, dreamlike. A friend viewing images of the works remarked, “Human life’s frailty is conveyed by the delicate, seemingly fragile fabric and threads.”
Destroyer by Jagdeep Raina
In the tapestry Destroyer, the viewer experiences a horror that stands for a series of atrocities. Flowers lightly grow over the woman’s feet as she tries to stop the unfolding tragedy: one murder is portrayed in a flattened field. In a land where governance is uncaring, people are trapped in a grid of a ruthless system. There are countless deaths away from any witnesses.
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